Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine, held by Descartes and others, that in the perception of the external world the immediate object of consciousness is vicarious, or representative of another and principal object beyond the sphere of consciousness.
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- noun philosophy The doctrine that
thoughts arerepresentations of real, external objects
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Examples
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The talk of abstract objects may be vaguely reminiscent of actualist representationism, which employs representations, which are actual abstract objects.
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This involves a nested possibility, which is troublesome to actualist representationism
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A useful overview of various issues concerning Lewis's possibilist realism, as well as actualist representationism, is found in Divers
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But on actualist representationism, no possible world contains a representation which says that something does not exist, for it is contradictory provided that ˜something™ means
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In actualist representationism, existence is conceptually prior to actual existence.
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This, however, should not automatically be taken to be a serious challenge to actualist representationism, for a thoroughly reductionist theory of modality may or may not be feasible.
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If those actualist representationists are right and consistency is indeed a modal notion, then actualist representationism is not a reductionist theory of modality.
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That is, the existential quantifier in the consequent needs to have a free range independently of the possibility operator in whose scope it occurs, which is hard to fathom on actualist representationism but which the possibilist view allows.
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Plantinga's version of actualist representationism faces its own version of the Quinean challenge, namely, the problem of specifying the individual essences which are supposed to replace non-actual possible objects.
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The trouble for actualist representationism is that there is no obvious way to make sense of the pronoun ˜it™ in (b).
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